Following on from main thread in Current Affairs about Tubs in general (now closed and mod suggestion that Entertainment category is more suitable).
Indeed, entertainment in certain respects is what Tubs has provided, albeit perhaps in a way not intended. And still awaiting 150k payback to the licence fee holder.
And of course, his new career in Virgin Radio which is imminent.
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Cat-Mod: See post here regarding off-topic segues.
Right. So I assume the groups Recode is in have moved on to other topics. Fascinating stuff altogether, but I’m still not getting the Tubridy connection. 🤷🏻
Lots of good possibilities to consider there Gregor, thanks!
I have to say, when I said earlier that I couldn’t fathom the mindset, but was fascinated by it, I did not expect this (whatever “this” is exactly). It’s next level shït, as the kids would say.
Oh, don’t just limit yourself to all that, P. We’ve moved on to Engineering students from Galway, Quake players from the noughties, Baggot Street drinkers and secret WhatsApp groups. Seriously, I could be in any number of cabals, and I probably don’t even know it myself. This looks as if it goes right to the top!
Nope. Really you are just sitting in your bedroom in your underpants eating pot noodles 😉
Basic Social Network Theory. If you look at any online community, cliques will develop. There are pro-Tubridy posters, there are posters who don't share those views of Tubridy, there are people in the broadcasting industry, there are people who have an interest in broadcasting and there are people who are just interested. Tubridy doesn't seem like an online gamer who would have been into Quake at the time of the foundation of Boards.ie and that's the point.
So, any opinion on Tubridy having a path back into Irish radio at a national level?
Regards...jmcc
No, that’s me.
I’ve never involved myself in online cliques, but if that’s your bag, fill your boots, I say. Odd that the only Tubridy connection is that he wasn’t a member of a very particular specialist minority subset of them back in the day, but I’m assuming you were one of these Quakers, so the identity holds a particular significance to you.
I can only say it so many times, J. I’m just not into all that reading the tea leaves. I always find that limiting your view of the future to your imagination - no matter how creative - is selling yourself short.
Fair play for being honest although I think we all assumed you were getting paid alright.
It shouldn’t be allowed though as it’s no different to being a troll imo.
Would you know who are the other posters getting paid because I have my suspicions ?
Was there a poster called something like ‘pintmanpaddy’ also getting paid ? He seems to have gone now though.
One said: ‘Exciting!! Happy Easter.’
Another added: ‘Can’t wait for the podcast! Happy Easter.’
A third wrote: ‘Looking forward to it,’ while author Edel Coffey shared: ‘Yay! I have been waiting for this podcast!’
Said it a few weeks ago, that he's almost finished already on Virgin. His stint over there has been an unmitigated disaster. Hasn't managed to form any connection with his audience. A podcast is his only remaining option, if he wants to save face.
Won’t be much out of the £150k left - I can understand why Tubs has to live in a bedsit now
Where is the obligatory pointing fingers photo with NK in his Godfather suit?
Suppose that counts as an opinion. A little before this time last year, Tubridy's future in RTE seemed certain. Then the Pay Scandal story broke followed by RTE getting into serious trouble with a lot of its management either retiring or being retired. Who would have thought back then that Tubridy would have ended up doing mid-mornings on Virgin Radio in London?
A podcast about books.
He will have to find a new angle to make this a success, as its hardly original.
Of course some will tune in because it's Tubs, but I don't think the true fanbase for Tubs is as big as he thinks it is. Time will tell.
Whatever happened the podcast with Vogue? Is that no longer a thing?
At least he'll get a chance to use that state of the art home recording studio he bought last year. Wonder did he take it to London with him when he moved?
Watched the clip of him announcing the podcast on Instagram and he's beginning to cut an increasingly pathetic figure. He looks devoid of confidence. It has finally hit him that he's not wanted back here. He said that he was putting on the green jersey by going over there. If that's the case, he has embarrassed the whole country over there.
Perhaps, in hommage to the French writer Marcel Proust, he can call it "A lá recherche du Tubs perdu". (Apologies for mangling the French.) Seriously though, it is a highly contested market and unless the podcaster has a niche, it will take time to build up an audience. Tubridy's brand recognition might bring in some of his RTE show fans but what's the market for it? Is he pitching to the Irish market or the UK market?
The union within RTE did not seem to regard Ryan as one of the good guys. Or seem upset that he wouldnt be returning.
Is the Hibernian club gone?
I swear if they do bring him back I'll never pay for another tv licence ever ever again so help me God🥴
I've only ever paid the bloody thing to keep trouble from my door but the thought of that gombeen back on national radio, rte, may just cause me to lose it.
You and half the nation.
I’ve a sibling that has paid it for 30 years and is the most middle of the road person you could meet and they were devastated they had bought it about a month before the story broke.
That devastation wasn’t an immediate reaction. It’s built up over time. The realisation of how they treat public money has developed more as the story hasn’t gone away and it has educated people.
If they seen Tubridy being offered a gig at RTE, in the future, I think they’d join a public protest if there was one. This person has never really had that quality before.
The other good thing about the whole fiasco is that they now view the government in a very different way and are much more open to believing other stories they would have previously not concerned themselves with.
The recent story about the Guard who supported a whistleblower and had to suffer the consequences any way possible. They now connect those dots.
Which of the unions said that? I know the NUJ were having hissing fits about the executive boards carry-on.
Yes the NUJ and the RTE Trade Union Group.
I wasn’t aware they had condemned Tubbs himself
Gergor a few years back on the Dee Forbes thread I got into this circular argument with another poster.
I'd ask where do you think Public Service Broadcasting should be going forward? or some such question and they'd reply "we really need to consider what we want from public service broadcasting/media first?" and every time I'd ask similar they'd do this, over a number of years. They just would not put their own general opinion on an opinion board. Just as Dee was leaving (the **** day before all this **** hit the fan) I ask on that thread again what do the defenders of RTÉ see happening going forward. Nothing. and the next day nothing and they haven't entered that thread since.
So in your general opinion Gergor where do you see Tubs in his "future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits"? No tea leaves require!
With the threat (and it does seem like a threat 😥) of being relentlessly pursued on this question for years, I feel I have little choice than to acquiesce to your demand, don my turban and shake the Magic 8 Ball™. Unfortunately, I can't reasonably ask you to cross my palm with silver (and despite recent speculation from some of the more, shall we say "imaginative" posters here, Noel Kelly is not doing so either), so please forgive the brevity of my answer, as it's not my paying day job to offer rash predictions on the careers of broadcasters.
I can see Tubridy continuing to present his weekday national UK mid-morning radio slot on Virgin Radio, simulcasted on a selection of local Irish stations, for the foreseeable future. I don't see any immediate change to his Sunday show. His national Sunday column in the Irish Mail on Sunday will likely continue for the moment too. An interesting twist to events is his recently announced podcast - time will tell what this delivers. So, he's juggling many spinning plates in the fire, some may be more successful than others, or visa versa, and who knows what the future will bring.
After that, I'm afraid it's
Have you heard any “mutterings” about a possible book deal stemming from the ‘London Diaries’ column, G?
If not for Christmas this year then, surely, next.
That's really it TBH an opinion. TBH I don't care what tubs does, I largely agree with what you've said.
Ah now Gregor might not be a fortuneteller but I don't think he can get a book deal going for Tubs!
I'd be interested if it's printed on tissue paper.
Not something I'd considered, E. Thanks for throwing it into the mix.
A possible stocking filler indeed - it would make sense. Maybe also an audio book version read by Tubridy himself?
Only on tape!
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